Adoption of Miniaturized Safety-Related Systems for Industrial Internet-of-Things Applications

Nowadays the internet is considered as given in almost any consumer electronic application. Internet connections are now extended to physical objects and are able to connect the living environment with computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones. We are dealing here with the Internet of Things. However, it is only the beginning of the Internet of Things revolution and today the development process has entered a new stage, where Internet of Things includes more and more industrial devices. Of course, using Internet of Things in such application fields faces the challenge of balancing the flexibility of internet communication and the robustness of industrial applications. In this paper, a concept of the adoption of a miniaturized safety-related solution on a single chip for industrial Internet of Things applications is introduced. An example application is presented to prove the feasibility of the introduced concept.